in dialog the buttons are always visible now so there is no more need for text like
TAB TAB ENTER to choose this or that...

Maybe just 1 new hint:
Use PAGE DOWN key to see entire text...

Hi, I am just starting to look at this. Regarding your PET, great work so far.

Note that /usr/share/sss/doc_strings/doc_strings.de needs to be updated. I have modified MoManager to do that, from the master file /usr/share/sss/doc_strings/doc_strings._________________http://bkhome.org/news/

Hello,
is this a bug?
I booted Racy 5.2.2.8 with the life CD on a about one year old laptop to test. I tried to scale an image for an internet site. After loading the image file, I pressed the key 'Bild' with an up arrow on my German keyboard to open the dialog to scale the canvas. The dialog opened and the two numbers for the new size following the 'New' label changed all the time (they were counting up) just like a gambling machine in a rob you blind and I couldn't close mtPaint. I was not able to take a screenshot either. The screenshot appended was taken after opening the dialog in a new mtPaint using the menu. I reproduced the issue several times with and without loading an image first: I opened mtPaint and pressed the key 'Bild' with an up arrow and I was in the rob you blind again. Even Pprocess didn't help me to close mtPaint. I restarted the X-server to close it.

Regards

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Since you are talking about this here I am trying to get wireless to work as well. I have a USB dongle (packaged as an Edimax EW-7718Un 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter) which gives these error messages. Have tried Racy 5228 and Wary 522 and others, same result with all.

Tried to follow what poster "mark" above did.
Downloaded the firmware .bin and placed it in the folder.
Network setup now does scan
BUT does not find any WPA signals, only WEP ones.
Not really sure how to use WEP in my router and don't really want to as it is less secure.

Wonder if there is a newer firmware that I should use in place of the rt2870.bin

This USB adapter does work with WPA on other OS's including Xubuntu

Was using Wary 522 for this test..

Can try Racy with the .pet but need a few cups of tea right now

EDIT: @ Pemasu, I have followed your instructions and Racy 5.2.2.8 now scans OK and finds all the wireless signals including the WPA ones so I am able to connect.

Hope I will be able to repeat the process and hopefully this means that future releases of Puppy will work out of the box with these wireless adapters because they are quite commonplace.

Now I need to go back to a PCI wireless adapter which I had in this machine before and we need to get that one working, because it was giving problems too. Will post back about that one later maybe

pressed the key 'Bild' with an up arrow (shortcut for scale canvas) and I was in the rob you blind again.

Sounds very like a key getting locked in autorepeat. Reproduce the situation again, and try pressing and releasing the key 'Bild' then - if my suspicion is right, that should resolve the situation.
But a key release event getting *reproducibly* lost is a bad symptom, even if resolvable; such things normally happen only very sporadically, if at all.

I did further testing: mtPaint is not the problem. The key itself does not hang. When I scroll down on a longer internet page in seamonkey and then press the key 'Bild' with an up arrow once, the page is scrolled up to the beginning as if the key was repeatedly pressed or held. The input was still there, because I couldn't scroll down using the mouse. I had this issue only on that Acer Aspire 7750G (Intel I5, ATI graphics). Other machines were ok. On the same machine under Win7 I can't find a thing like that.

The bad sympton remains

wjaguar wrote:

a key release event getting *reproducibly* lost

I'm still questioning because I had the same issue on this machine under Lucid 5.28. On both Puppies I could stop 'the rob' simply by pressing the 'Bild' key with the down arrow and mtPaint was working again except that key. Doing the same in seamonkey helped too.

Racy 5.2.2.8: I installed PuppyLook, I got this dialog box, which is generated by the package manager, I think. Image appended.

'chages to take effect' ->changes ...
'you should restart X server' maybe better here-> '...restart the X-server'
Could you look, if this typo really is the package manager. If not, excuse me for the post.
Unpleasing side-effect. When somebody translates such a string and later the original is corrected, the translation may break because the source string being different the system doesn't find the translation any more.

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The key itself does not hang. When I scroll down on a longer internet page in seamonkey and then press the key 'Bild' with an up arrow once, the page is scrolled up to the beginning as if the key was repeatedly pressed or held. The input was still there, because I couldn't scroll down using the mouse. I had this issue only on that Acer Aspire 7750G (Intel I5, ATI graphics). Other machines were ok. On the same machine under Win7 I can't find a thing like that.

"The key itself" (i.e. the hardware) very rarely is the source of such problems - and it definitely isn't in your case, for it works OK in Win7. The problem is usually caused by GUI library losing the "key release message" from the key - then it believes the key remains depressed forever. And to put it back into connection with reality it is enough to give it another "release message" from that key, by pressing and releasing it again.
Both mtPaint and Firefox use GTK+, so the problem may be either in there, or in X itself. You may use 'xev' utility from X to determine on which level the "release message" is lost; when you release that key, the corresponding X event should look like this:

On both Puppies I could stop 'the rob' simply by pressing the 'Bild' key with the down arrow and mtPaint was working again except that key. Doing the same in seamonkey helped too.

This stops GTK's "spin timer" (first reversing direction on the keypress, then killing it on release) - which shows that release event from "Bild - down" key gets received and processed OK. And given that the "spin up" gets stopped for good and does not resume, it's most likely GTK+ that is the problem. But still, it's better to make sure.
And which version of GTK+ is used on the affected systems?

Again sir... 'Thank You' Racy (currently using 5.2.2.7) now Has Wifi working! (posting from it now)

Just followed your instructions as per your post above using the .pet for the rt2800usb.

For those who may be interested, I'm running:

(A) Belkin 300 router
(B) LinksysAE1000 usb stick
(C) Racy-5.2.2.7

You sure put a lot of effort in 'ALL' the puppy versions... I for One really believe your 'Exprimo' should be inline for the next 'Official Puppy' hey, after all, we do need a Debian in the pack somewhere!

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